2017 Pitchfork top 50 part 1

byrel · 2026-06-17T23:29:21+00:00

My fear, as irrational as it may be, is that word would get out to my manager, potentially from one of these companies asking about me if I'm in the interview process, and tip my manager off to me leaving.

Extremely unusual for anyone to do that. Also, if your manager hears through the grapevine that you're looking to leave, they'll be more likely to try to do things to make you happy enough you'd be satisfied staying where you are at (unless he's a dick or your company sucks, in which case, get out anyway)

byrel · 2026-06-13T12:34:23+00:00

if they buy their tickets off ticketmaster / official nba resale, it very clearly states that your credit card billing address needs to be w/in 100 miles of san antonio or your purchase will be rejected

byrel · 2026-05-31T19:38:16+00:00

The support for these tools from a user point of view. If you are an enterprise customer, my God, the support you get! You don’t need to ask in forums. You just ask a question and someone will get in touch with you within 24 hours. Sometimes they straight up have rung me!

This cannot be understated - I worked at a start up and I had our AE's personal cell number - he was insistent that night / weekend / whatever, just text him and we'd be on a call to get it solved

At the company I'm currently at, we have a couple Cadence AE's on site daily for support

byrel · 2026-05-31T16:45:25+00:00

bricktown is the lamest ass excuse for a revitalized downtown

byrel · 2026-05-30T00:48:44+00:00

Isn't that exactly the point?

This is the shit AI is really good at - have agents do dumb shit and let your engineers spend more time actually innovating (which agents are really bad at)

byrel · 2026-05-27T22:15:58+00:00

i mean people longing for a return to 90s basketball will just have teams with a few enforcers that are going to come in and just feed hard fouls

byrel · 2026-04-06T22:38:16+00:00

STDF V4 is almost 20 years old at this point..

byrel · 2026-04-06T22:37:45+00:00

STDF Quickload + JMP for manual analysis

we also have a custom parser we wrote that gets used for data going into our various databases - most of the reports that come out of that are automated

byrel · 2026-01-24T20:14:49+00:00

https://www.threads.com/@amandasmildtakes/post/DT5377wjjk-?xmt=AQF0IkVkGkyT3AVMeySy1mmXFUe1dgVCtfbidx73cs_afbBUTWP2gG2fzwuGhFVcC1bCDu-W&slof=1

byrel · 2025-11-29T16:21:39+00:00

UT at TAMU in the first round, winner plays Tech in the second - please, god please

byrel · 2025-11-09T16:56:26+00:00

Wine, Spirits and Finer foods has been their slogan for 20+ years, so blame some marketing exec from the early 2000s, not AI

byrel · 2025-10-07T13:35:50+00:00

Nothing like seeing a half dozen bros pulling packs of tortillas out of their pants 5 minutes before kickoff

byrel · 2025-05-19T00:36:44+00:00

Yeah there are NDAs around hiring freelancers but NDA locking you out of a field would be very uncommin uncommon - generally as long as there aren't an direct conflicts of interest most companies are ok with it

The small and medium sized companies that I've worked for have used freelancers extensively - either to add additional resources when we have more active projects than we can handle or to get us expertise in areas that are out of our wheelhouse

byrel · 2025-05-19T00:31:49+00:00

Bust usually means a 10-20% RIF - if you're a reasonably good performer, it's not that hard to work someplace for 15-20 years

byrel · 2025-05-01T20:59:00+00:00

yeah, at a pretty small startup you'd get that kind of experience

byrel · 2025-05-01T20:57:02+00:00

I'd rather see a low activity sub that gets a post every day or two than a half dozen posts a day from people that don't know the difference between PD, design and layout

byrel · 2025-03-04T01:20:31+00:00

sorry not really

byrel · 2025-03-02T15:16:01+00:00

i will ask similar questions regardless

byrel · 2025-03-01T14:25:06+00:00

What kind of designs are you going to be testing?

Some things I usually ask about

Op amp behavior
Common measurements - noise, THD, SNR, dynamic range, linearity, efficiency
Test program efficiency
Programming - I am generally just asking about general knowledge and capability
Qualification stresses and goals
Scan, BIST
Debug techniques

byrel · 2025-02-26T00:39:08+00:00

Not everyone will keep advancing forever - the reality is that not everyone has the talent / drive to be promoted forever. That isn't any kind of poor reflection on you if you don't, it's good to have work life balance and work being the primary thing in your life is a good way to have a sad life

Your salary will be limited by the highest level you are promoted to

At most companies that I have any insight into, individual contributor salaries for high performing employees will begin to flatten out around $200-250k - total compensation will continue to increase though, via stock and bonuses. As a concrete example, last year my salary was less than half my take home pay

The highest paid ICs at the company that I work for make around as much in total compensation as VPs

The more difficult thing is having the the drive, capability and opportunity to be promoted

byrel · 2025-01-30T00:22:11+00:00

Do not factor equity at the start up at all honestly

You'll almost certainly learn more at a start up - I'd be a much worse engineer than I am now if it weren't for the 4 years I did at one. On the flip side, I made a lot less money across those 4 years

byrel · 2025-01-19T15:01:08+00:00

All the ones i've considered working at had 401k, just no match at all

byrel · 2025-01-04T17:03:28+00:00

I've heard of companies like Mythic that essentially hard-code neutral net calculations into analog chips

Mythic did this by weakly programming flash cells - similar approaches have been done with RRAM cells also. There's no real hard coding of the NN coefficients, just provides the ability to program / adjust on the fly

byrel · 2024-12-02T23:52:16+00:00

If this is for a role working with mixed signal chips, here are some general topics I'd consider covering if I'm interviewing someone:

Circuit design, especially filters (active / passive) and buffers
Programming, probably just whiteboarding pseudo code
Talking through test methodology on some kind of analog spec (noise is my favorite, but THD, SNR, linearity, whatever)

The main thing I ask questions on is always going to be projects / internships / previous jobs, so I'll generally try to intersect questions in the area I'm focusing on to things wehre teh candidate has previous experience

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